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HONDA CARS SHAW OPENS AS FIRST PH SUBSIDIARY-OWNED DEALERSHIP, FEATURES NEW GLOBAL STORE DESIGN

Honda Cars Philippines has opened Honda Cars Shaw in Mandaluyong City, its first dealership operated by its own subsidiary, Honda Cars Retail Philippines. It is also the first in the country to use Honda's New Global Visual Identity store design. The roughly 1,811-square-meter facility features a six-car showroom, a customer lounge, and 17 service bays, and is open daily from 8 AM to 5 PM.

EPSON PRINT ADD-ON SENDS ADOBE EXPRESS DESIGNS STRAIGHT TO PRINT

Designers using Adobe Express can now send work to print in just a few clicks. Epson has launched the Epson Print add-on, which opens Epson Print Automate directly from Adobe Express and removes the manual export and upload steps. It works at launch with seven Epson SureColor printers and is available in 11 local languages.

BPI BEEFS UP APP SECURITY AS SCAMS EVOLVE

The Bank of the Philippine Islands strengthens its cybersecurity measures and promotes responsible digital banking as it marks 175 years The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) continues to strengthen its cybersecurity measures and promote...

GCASH PARENT MYNT DEBUTS ON THE PSE AT PHP6.60 PER SHARE

GCash's parent company is now on the stock market. Mynt began trading on the Philippine Stock Exchange under the ticker GCASH, opening at PHP6.60 per share. Its IPO attracted 20 cornerstone investors, and more than 140,000 GStocks PH users placed orders worth nearly PHP1.1 billion, with a minimum board lot of 100 shares.

UP TO 34 PERCENT OFF PLUS FREEBIES DURING SAMSUNG WEEK 2026

Upgrade season is here. Samsung Week 2026 is on until November 8, with up to 34 percent off and freebies on Samsung.com. Think exclusive colors for the Galaxy Z Fold8 and Z Flip8, 60 days of Strava and iFIT with select Galaxy Watch models, and six months of Google AI Pro with select Galaxy devices.

TOP DEVELOPERS TAKE CENTER STAGE AT BIGGEST-EVER NATIONAL HOUSING EXPO

The country’s leading property developers brought more than 50,000 ready-for-occupancy homes, including condominiums, closer to Filipino workers and their families at the biggest-ever National Housing Expo.

MAYA NAMED AMONG BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN ASIA 

Maya is on Asia's best workplaces list again. The Philippine digital financial services platform was named among the Best Companies to Work for in Asia for the second consecutive year at the 2026 HR Asia Awards. It also took home the Tech Empowerment award for the second year in a row and added a new People Transformation award, for three wins in 2026. In the Philippines, 44 companies were chosen from 160 surveyed organizations.

HUAWEI NOVA 16S SERIES PRE-ORDERS OPEN OCTOBER 30 WITH PHP5,000 OFF

HUAWEI is bringing the nova 16s Series to the Philippines, and the cameras are the story. It has front and rear True-to-Color cameras, a 200MP main camera on the Pro, 5G, a 7,000mAh battery, and AI tools like AI Composition, AI Move, and AI Remove. Pre-orders open October 30, while a PHP500 deposit promo runs from October 23 to October 29.

HONOR PLAY 10 LANDS IN THE PHILIPPINES AT PHP6,999

Looking for an affordable everyday phone? HONOR Philippines has launched the HONOR Play 10 at PHP6,999. It packs a 5,000mAh battery with 10W charging, a 6.74-inch HD+ display with a 90Hz refresh rate, and a MediaTek Helio G81 processor running Android Go. Choose from 3GB RAM + 64GB or 4GB RAM + 128GB, in Midnight Black or Ocean Cyan.

2GO SHOWCASES LOGISTICS CAREERS AT JOBSTREET VIRTUAL JOB FAIR

2GO Group, Inc., the Philippines' largest integrated transportation and logistics solutions provider, used the recent JobStreet Virtual Job Fair to showcase career paths across freight forwarding, warehousing, supply chain operations, technology, and corporate services. he effort aligns with a 2026 World Bank report that identifies maritime transport as a driver of employment and economic growth.

ASUS PROART RTX SPARK LAPTOPS BRING LOCAL AI POWER TO CREATORS

ASUS Philippines has launched the ProArt P16 and ProArt P14 creator laptops, powered by the NVIDIA RTX Spark platform, which pairs a Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace CPU. The laptops offer up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of AI performance for running large AI models offline.

WHO FEELS THE MILESTONE? DECONSTRUCT VI UNPACKS THE PHILIPPINES’ UMIC STATUS

On October 12, 2026, the UPLB Economics Society gathered students and economists for Deconstruct VI at the ICOPED Auditorium with a single, urgent question: What does the Philippines' new upper-middle-income status actually mean for the ordinary Filipino?

SUNLIFE REFRESHES ITS GLOBAL BRAND

Sun Life is now Sunlife. The company has unveiled a refreshed global brand with a modernized sun globe logo, a one-word name and a new tagline, "Making life brighter." In the Philippines, where it has served Filipinos since 1895, Sunlife now reaches more than 6.2 million clients. The rollout begins with digital and client-facing channels.

PLDT ENTERPRISE ADDS GEOCHECK, NETIDENTITY, AND ROAMSTATUS TO SMARTSAFE

s that really you? PLDT Enterprise's SmartSafe suite now has three new authentication APIs that use mobile network signals to help businesses spot risky logins and transactions: NetIdentity (SIM and device swap checks), GeoCheck (general vicinity), and RoamStatus (domestic or roaming). Billed as the first telco-enabled digital fraud management API suite in the Philippines, it is GSMA-certified.

DEPED JOINS UNIFIED 911 FOR FASTER SCHOOL EMERGENCY RESPONSE

The Department of Education (DepEd) is now part of the country's Unified 911 system. Under a new DepEd-DILG school safety pact, barangay tanods can be deployed to school premises, and emergency reports will reach both the PNP and DepEd at the same time through technology from NGA 911. It was signed during a school safety drill in Makati.

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